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Wallace, Carolyn S. – Science Education, 2012
This is a critical time for the science education community as we embark on the creation and implementation of new national science standards. The purpose of this essay is to offer insight into how the language of curriculum standards, including that found in state science standards in the United States over the past 15 years, has posed barriers…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Cognitive Psychology, Educational Policy, Science Education
Machin, Stephen; McNally, Sandra – Centre for the Economics of Education (NJ1), 2011
Educational inequalities are evident even before children start school. Some educational achievement gaps widen out as individuals progress further through the education sequence and into the labour market, especially those connected to disadvantaged students. Thus, there is a significant need for careful evaluation of educational policies that…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Educational Policy, Evidence, Equal Education
Wang, Margaret C.; Haertel, Geneva D.; Walberg, Herbert J. – 1997
A knowledge base on influences on student learning is emerging from a study that analyzed the contents of 179 handbook chapters and reviews, compiled 91 research syntheses, and surveyed 61 educational researchers. This analysis presents results of the research by using a 28-category conceptual framework based on models of schooling that influenced…
Descriptors: Community Characteristics, Educational Policy, Educational Research, Elementary Secondary Education
Gruschka, Andreas – 1994
Expert reports about integrated learning (IL) and vocational-technical education (VTE) activities in Organisation for Economic Cooperation Development (OECD) English speaking member countries, on France, the Netherlands, Denmark, Germany, Portugal, Finland, papers of the relevant OECD seminars in Phoenix, Arizona, and in Marseille, France were…
Descriptors: Educational Change, Educational Environment, Educational Needs, Educational Policy
Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development, Paris (France). – 1994
More than 50 delegates from 19 Organisation for Economic Cooperation Development (OECD) member countries participated in a seminar examining the implications of technological innovation and economic change for the organization and pedagogy of vocational-technical education (VTE). The discussion focused on the following issues: VTE's responses to…
Descriptors: Coordination, Curriculum Development, Economic Change, Education Work Relationship
Muller, Eve; Markowitz, Joy – Project Forum, 2004
English language learners (ELLs) pose particularly difficult challenges relating to special education referral, assessment and instruction. The purpose of this document is to provide a brief synthesis of the research on and information about ELLs with disabilities. The document is intended to provide state- and local-level policy makers with…
Descriptors: Expertise, Early Intervention, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction